00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Roth, Philip aut Verfasser/-in terrifying heroic aviator foreigners fiction American history program isolationist boy ISOLATION understanding threats believable Hitler racism election ruptures american literature negotiations destroying English 1940 growing up American Shelves alternate version Newark new government safe corner family president anti-Semitism The Plot Against America Philip Roth New York Vintage Books 2004 1 In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. 9781400079490 9781400079490 1400079497 1400079497 eng Band 391 S.